The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has claimed that Governor Siminalayi Fubara owes his political success to the mentorship of Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
According to Okocha, Governor Fubara’s ascent to power would not have been possible without the support of Minister Wike, whom he described as Fubara’s political benefactor and mentor.
These assertions were made by the APC leader during an interview on Channels Television.
Reacting to the situation, Okocha said: “The feud between the governor and his mentor, Governor Fubara is Wike’s political investment.
“From civil servant to the candidate of a party and delivering him in 23 local governments out of 23, the first in our history, all of these were Wike’s ability to manoeuvre. The former governor has said, ‘I am not asking you for anything. I am only saying that you are destroying the structure that produced you.’
“If you are a politician, no politician will allow his structure to be dismantled. When you do that, it means that you have no home to fall back to. That is the issue.”
Governor Fubara and Nyesom Wike, the former governor of Rivers State, have been engaged in a fierce rivalry over the control and governance of the oil-rich state.
